The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-10
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


The Australia brought thirty bags Of
mail for the Post Office.
Messrs. Bishop q Co. received So, 900 in
small gold by the Australia.
The Woman's Church Aid Society meets
at half-past o'clock this afternoon.
Purser Bedolfe has the thanks of the AD-
vERTIsER for a full file OF late papers.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w Schmidt returned
from a tour abroad by the Australia.
The latest quotations in the rice market
were cents and AZ cents as to quality.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Cooke and family
were among the passengers by the Aus
tralia.
The Chilean corvette PiIcomayo had not
arrived at San Francisco when the Austria
liza left.
The bark Ceylon lost her maintopsaiI,
topgalIantsail and jib on her up trip from
this port.
Messrs. Z. F. Adams & Co. will hold
their regular cash sale at 10 O'Clock this
morning.
The mems class on church history will
meet this evening at 7:30 O'Clock at the
residence of Rev. II. H. Gowen.
Mr. A Wenner has got an immense
stock of new goods on the Australia, par
ticulars of which will be given later.
An adjourned meeting of the Star Mill
Company will be held at IL o'clock this
morning at the office of w. q. Irwin 81 Co.
General W. H Davis, of the United
States army, was passenger by the Aus
tralia, and is staying at the Hawaiian
Hotel.
The barkentine w. II. Dimond, which
sailed from San Francisco on the 1st for
this port, has 200 head of Berkshire boars
on board.
Applications for money orders for for
eign countries, per r. NJ. S. S. Zealandia,
will be received at the Post Office until
o'clock this afternoon.
The regular meeting of the Boardsof Rep
resentatives of the Honolulu Fire Depart
ment will be held this evening at 30
o'clock at the Bell Tower
The overland mails have been much de-
layed owing to the heavy storms on the
plains. There has been a blockade on
nearly every line leading to Omaha.
The Hon. Rollin NJ. and Mrs Daggett
arrived by the Australia, and are staying
at the Hawaiian Hotel. They will proba-
bly, return to San Francisco by the same
vessel.
Mr.. Booth, the temperance lecturer,
gave a brief address before the students of
Oahu College yesterday afternoon. At the
conclusion the Rev. w. c. Merritt thanked
Mr.. Booth for his attendance
. This evening Mr.. Richard T. Booth will
deliver his lecture, Three Years in the
Ranks at the y. NJ. c. A. Hall, for the
benefit of the relief fund of the Geo. w.
belong Post There is every indication
of full house.
The Wilder's Steamship Company, with
their usual thOughtfulness, held the
steamer Lehua beyond her sailing time
last evening, so that the foreign mails by
the Australia for the places she touches at
could be forwarded.
IEThe y. NJ. c. A. bookkeeping class has
presented their instructor, Mr.. 2. c. Jones,
with an engrossed address and gold pen
as an expression of gratitude for his inter
est in them and his gratuitOus services for
their advancement
The first number of the Hawaii Govern
ment Gazette was published by authority
yesterday 1t contains among other an
nouncements the Statutes of the Royal
Order of the Star of Oceania, instituted on
the 18th of December last.
The Australia, On her last trip to San
Francisco, had northeast to southwest
gales, with rough sea and heavy swell.
Her passage was days 20 hours. On the
fourth day out seaman named Charles
Knorp died from rupture of an aneurism,
and was buried at sea.
The Rev. w. l.. II. Baker, Seventh
Day Adventist, accompanied by his wife,
were passengers by the Australia, en- route
to the Colonies. They will leave here on
the 10th on the Mariposa. Mr.. Baker will
probably speak before he leaves, due no
tice of which will be given.